Patent GB-1427569-A (GB)
Title: Production of glass articles
IPC: C03B9/195
Filed: 1973-03-12
Abstract: 1427569 Glass blowing machines CARLZEISS - STIFTUNG [trading as JENAER GLASWERK SCHOTT & GEN] 12 March 1973 [13 March 1972] 11877/73 Heading C1M In the production of glass hollow bodies from glass parisons, a plurality of neck moulding devices are provided to mould the neck of the hollow body and to hold the parison for transportation through processing apparatus having two or more units each having a conveying means for passing the neck moulding devices therethrough; mechanical means are provided for transferring each successive moulding device independently from the conveying means of one processing unit to the conveying means of the next processing unit and the moulding devices are not interconnected so that they pass through the apparatus independently of one another. Apparatus may include any two or more of the following processes [a or b; c or e; f or g] (a) feeding with vertically introduced gob; (b) feeding with horizontally introduced gob; (c) preliminary pressing, (e) preliminary blowing; (d) reheating; (f) final blowing in a fixed blowing mould, (g) final blowing in a revolving blowing mould; (h) cooling.  As shown, Fig. la shows a possible arrangement of processing units 1, 2 and 3 in which the part of the neck moulding devices is indicated by the dot-dash line 4 for the forward path through the working stations of each unit and by the cross line 5 for the return path, arrows 6 indicating direction of rotation of the units. Glass gobs are fed to unit 1 at 7 and at unit 1 the gobs are given the preliminary press or blow. At point 8, the neck moulds are transferred to unit 2 which has reheat and further blowing stations with means for supporting the base of the parison. At point 9 the neck moulds and parisons are transferred to unit 3 for final blowing and delivery of finished articles at point 10. Other arrangements are shown, including some using conveyer belts in place of turntables. As shown in Figs. 2a, 3a a neck mould 15 rests on a receiver 16 of a turntable unit 1 and is held at its upper part by a holder 17. The neck of a parison 20 is moulded by mould part 18 and the preliminary mould 19 is shown. The outline 21 shows the neck mould and parison as it is transferred. The neck mould may be arranged for rotation if required. At the transfer points 8 (or 9), the neck mould 15 and parison 20 are raised by holder 17 to the level of a receiver 25 of unit 2, while the receiver 16 can be utilized to receive a returning, empty, neck mould 15 from a lower receiver 24 of unit 2. The neck moulds 15 may be centred by grippers operated pneumatically or hydraulically or, as shown, by electromagnets 27 which are released during transfer. As shown in Fig. 4a, the neck mould 15 has the parison 20 formed by pressing in a mould 30 in an inverted position, and is held and transferred to the receiver 24 of unit 2 by means of a lever 28 pivoted about a pinion 29. In this case, an empty neck mould is held in the upper receiver 25 (not shown) and is transferred to the now empty receiver 16 of unit 1. A number of variations of inverting transfers are shown.